why not?

Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on February 25, 2019 11:03 am wrote:
> dmcq (dmcq.delete@this.fano.co.uk) on February 25, 2019 10:35 am wrote:
> > Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on February 25, 2019 9:43 am wrote:
> > > Not the parent (not3par.delete@this.gmail.com) on February 25, 2019 9:36 am wrote:
> > > > Michael S (already5chosen.delete@this.yahoo.com) on February 25, 2019 1:03 am wrote:
> > > > > why not?
> > > >
> > > > Arm doesn't build nor sells hardware. That would mean competing
> > > > against their own customers so it will never happen.
> > >
> > > Competing against your own customers is pretty common in this industry.
> >
> > Arm was built on cooperation and the idea of an ecosystem. Competing with people
> > you talk with at an early stage of development would be very destructive of such
> > trust and with it their business model. I'm surprised you aren't aware of this.
> >
>
> Competing with ARM architecture licensees, i.e. customers, most of them customers in
> more than one role, is an integral and very important part of Arm's business model.
> I'm surprised you aren't aware of this.

Apple and other manufacturers don't as far as I'm aware share low level design information for their chip designs with Arm. That does not affect the ecosystem and producing their own designs is a choice of Apple and other collaborators.